On a sticky hot Liberian Saturday afternoon, doll-faced Caroline, 15, sat across a poorly lit room while a much younger girl talked. When Caroline’s turn to speak arrived, her eyes picked a spot on ...

MONROVIA — I’m zipping around Liberia in a turbo-charged tour of the West African country, ricocheting from public hospital to presidential digs to rubber plantation to rape clinic, taking it all in: ...

The trip began with William D. Coleman, a boy who had grown up on a plantation. The landscape looks like many places in the United States. Yellow school buses wend their way through streets with ...

Faced with injustice in the land of their enslavement, oppressed people might find the offer of a new country, with the chance for freedom and prosperity, attractive. During the early 1800s in the U.S ...

In the four years that Newark native Edward J. Roye lived in Liberia, he had become a very wealthy man. In 1850, he returned to the United States on personal business and was asked to return to Terra ...

In August 2023, I joined Afro Charities as an intern. I came as someone who had spent considerable time immersed in archives, deeply revering the processing archivists whose hands, eyes, feet and ...